Earworm!

[Morrigoon]

(Yes, I know there was a "the song in my head" thread before, but it's from like 2005...)

So what's stuck in your brain right now?

All morning I've had "Younger Than Springtime" from South Pacific. Why? I have no idea, it's not like I watched it or heard it anytime recently. But somehow my brain fell on "Happy Talk" this morning, and that branched into "Younger Than Springtime", which has now been plaguing/entertaining me for hours.

[3894]

youtube clip safe for work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaC7epL2k0s)

[flippyshark]

Wow, I used to see clips from that number constantly when I had to work in the preshow at The Great Movie Ride.

(C'mout, c'mout, the little stars are peekin', waitin' for ya to commence
Uh-huh, uh-huh, I kinda thought you'd weaken, sittin' on a backyard fence)

Actually, I really like Footlight Parade a lot.

[flippyshark]

Before I started reading this thread, the tune in my head was "Bellboy" from The Who's second big rock opera/ song cycle Quadrophenia.

[Scrooge McSam]

*Scrooge thinks the world 3894's hubbo lives in is a rich full oyster.*

[ozron]

But somehow my brain fell on "Happy Talk" this morning, and that branched into "Younger Than Springtime", which has now been plaguing/entertaining me for hours.

Well, better "Springtime" than "Happy Talk"!

[CoasterMatt]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PqjMSNfkU) has been my earworm for about a month now...

[JWBear]

Sometimes, I think Busby Berkeley was on serious drugs.

[Kevy Baby]

youtube clip safe for work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaC7epL2k0s)

...Busby Berkeley...Y'all seen Bert Rigby You're a Fool (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096911/)?

[Morrigoon]

In case anyone cares... Younger Than Springtime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqCSXXVk3Tk) and Happy Talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMORAZCog5A&NR=1)

(bonus: the man in the second one - from the original film - is SUPER hot, shirtless, and wearing tight shorts. Totally SFW though)

And since I feel like sharing the South Pacific earworm, you'll never get this one out of your head, heheh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEdezKgbrk&feature=related).

[catfiend]

Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush"

[Morrigoon]

I have some classical tune I'm sure I should know the name of that was on someone's caller tune.

[Gemini Cricket]

"The Ballad of John and Yoko"
But just the intro part.

[BDBopper]

This is the song I have in my head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkxpHt2cNwQ).

There are a lot of really stupid cartoons out today and the quality overall has gone down the toilet compared to the cartoons we grew up with and before that. Phineas & Ferb are an exception. The premise of the show is relatable (two kids figuring out what to do on a day of summer vacation and an older sibling trying to ruin it). The plot is whimsical but isn't random and makes sense (in other words it doesn't seem like the writers were high on something while creating the show). That's very difficult to do when the writers have put in a side story to each episode revolving around the secret agent activities of their pet platypus. I know without seeing a full episode it sounds silly but you'll figure it out quickly. Whether you like it or not you have to give the writers credit for coming up with a song for each episode and the musical styles and genres used are very diverse.

[katiesue]

Every time I read the title of this thread the Inchworm commercial song goes through my head. "inchworm, inchworm I love you"

[Alex]

See, there's an advantage to me completely disinterested in music. Near total earworm immunity.

[LashStoat]

Bear always tells me to think of "Happy Birthday to You" when I get stuck on a song...which is ironic since it has plagued me once a year for 49 years. Yah just can't win, can yah?

[Kevy Baby]

Bear always tells me to think of "Happy Birthday to You" when I get stuck on a song...which is ironic since it has plagued me once a year for 49 years. Yah just can't win, can yah?I am not sure if it will play down under, but the classic way to end an ear worm here in the states is "by Mennen."

It was the end of the commercial and the way it was sung in the commercial gives a definite finality to whatever is running through your head.

[LashStoat]

I am not sure if it will play down under, but the classic way to end an ear worm here in the states is "by Mennen."

It was the end of the commercial and the way it was sung in the commercial gives a definite finality to whatever is running through your head.

Dear KB,

"Bi Men" have always been a distraction - particularly down under.

:evil:

[Morrigoon]

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be...
Roxy!
The lady rakin' in the chips is gonna be...
Roxy!

[Mousey Girl]

The Boy put in our Smashmouth CD yesterday, while in the car. If it were up to him we would listen to it every time we go somewhere. Once again I have "Holiday" in my head.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I've had "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton for the last few days. I don't mind though.

[Gemini Cricket]

Mannah mannah*








*I blame mouepod for that one.

[Morrigoon]

Well, whatever was in my head before, I just forgot it - thanks, GC!

[Chernabog]

I have every song from The Drowsy Chaperone stuck in my head right now.

Mostly because I was given a live cast recording from a dear friend and I've been listening to it from start to finish, nonstop, over and over, for the past 6 days.

[CoasterMatt]

I Have A Dream - sung by Amanda Seyfried (Soundtrack to Mamma Mia! the movie)

[Sohrshah]

"You'll Go Far Kid" by The Offspring It's catchy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52sA9IpiAU&feature=related

[CoasterMatt]

OMG! The Mae Shi have created another earworm deluxe...

They covered the Miley Cyrus song - "See You Again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXBOGlIeSiY)"

[JWBear]

I've had "pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka in my head all morning. :(

[Crazybirdman]

mellow yellow

[Morrigoon]

I can't believe how persistent "Happy Talk" is. Torture when you're on the phone all day.

[Gemini Cricket]

"bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer..."

[3894]

will.i.am "Yes We Can" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY)

and

Cherokee Morning Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqoxOcEqpk)

[Gemini Cricket]

Thanks to CP, I have "Bolero" in my head
:D

[Morrigoon]

Layla...
Ya got me on my knees, Layla...

[Morrigoon]

Aw, cr@p! Somebody's stupid (country music!) caller tune is now my earworm!

"If I had a million dollars... I'd build a treehouse in the yard... if I had a million dollars..."

Auuuuuuuuugh!

[Betty]

I have avoided this thread because the words ear and worm should never go together...

[Gemini Cricket]

Tristeza - Sergio Mendes

:)

[Kevy Baby]

I have avoided this thread because the words ear and worm should never go together...Were you worried you would see something like this (NSFTS *):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385/2533328978_14cd38fa33.jpg?v=0

* Not Safe For The Squeamish

[Betty]

Yes - the worms crawl in - the worms crawl out - the worms play peanuckle on (or is it in?) your snout?

[JWBear]

I had Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer going through my head last night. Don't ask me why....

[Kevy Baby]

Hey JWBear; why did you have Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer going through your head last night?

[JWBear]

Hey JWBear; why did you have Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer going through your head last night?

:p

[Prudence]

Today's earworm: Waltzing Matilda.

[CoasterMatt]

My earworm this morning is "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

[Morrigoon]

Tonight's (this morning's?) random earworm:

You'll never walk alone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VxoqS8iuc4&feature=related) - from Carousel

(And I chose that particular clip for it because it's got a not-so-hidden Mickey in it, and any opportunity to hotlink Englebert Humperdink is a must, IMHO, haha)

edit: Oh no, I simply can't resist linking Tom Jones singing it on a light-up disco floor! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMNb-120gOc&feature=related) And I do believe that's a mirror over his head!

[ozron]

Tom Jones singing it on a light-up disco floor![/URL] And I do believe that's a mirror over his head!

Didn't you know? Tom Jones always has a mirror over his head!

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Aw, cr@p! Somebody's stupid (country music!) caller tune is now my earworm!

"If I had a million dollars... I'd build a treehouse in the yard... if I had a million dollars..."

Auuuuuuuuugh!

Barenaked Ladies aren't country. They're folk-pop.

[Morrigoon]

LSPE: I think multiple people have recorded it. And it was couuuuuuuntry.

[Mousey Girl]

I have the Beer Run song spinning in my head.

[Gemini Cricket]

Run Runaway - Slade

The song has I think 4 lines in it repeated over and over and over... :D

VVV See my sig below. VVV

[Not Afraid]

Here's a visual to help you out, GC. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM)

[Deebs]

Heard it today at work. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJ_2zQYUFg)

It is so skipping over and over in my brain. :mad:

[Mousey Girl]

The Beer Run Song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCPhIjmk-s)

[Morrigoon]

MG: that was totally cute

[Kevy Baby]

I think this qualifies: I heard Elton John's Rocket Man and I couldn't help but think of William Shatner's rendition.

[JWBear]

I think this qualifies: I heard Elton John's Rocket Man and I couldn't help but think of William Shatner's rendition.

Shatner's version isn't just an earworm... It's that disgusting little creature they stuck in Chekov's ear in Star Trek II!

[cirquelover]

My husband was singing the song from the free credit report commercial yesterday and now it's stuck in my head too! Aargh....get it out!

[Mousey Girl]

The Boy ran around today, singing the Weird Al version of "I'm Too Sexy."

I may have to kill him.

[Morrigoon]

Special for you, JWBear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY&feature=related

[JWBear]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

[blueerica]

Oh... THIS is the Earworm thread...

Mine is Apache by Sugarhill Gang...

Tonto... jump on it! jump on it! jump on it!
Kemosabe... jump on it! jump on it! jump on it!

[Gemini Cricket]

Oh... THIS is the Earworm thread...

Mine is Apache by Sugarhill Gang...

Tonto... jump on it! jump on it! jump on it!
Kemosabe... jump on it! jump on it! jump on it!
Ha! Lisa and I had that one stuck in our heads too the other day.
:D

[Capt Jack]

The Sky is Cryin' - Elmore James

[Moonliner]

Repent your sins! For the end of the world is at hand.

[Morrigoon]

"Alfie" by Lily Allen

[JWBear]

LSPE posted a link to a certain Bollywood musical number in another thread. I officially hate her now, as I can do nothing to get that horribly catchy tune out of my head!!! :eek:

[Not Afraid]

LSPE posted a link to a certain Bollywood musical number in another thread. I officially hate her now, as I can do nothing to get that horribly catchy tune out of my head!!! :eek:

You and me both. But I've been waking up daily with Bollywood songs in my head.

[Morrigoon]

Currently have 9-to-5 stuck in my head. Maybe if I start contemplating the state of my loony bun I can get Dolly Parton's voice out of my head.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I've been waking up to one or another of Ben Folds' new songs. "You Don't Know Me," and "Cologne."

[€uroMeinke]

I've had the Yo gamma gamma song with that hobbit guy going through my head since last weekend.

[Not Afraid]

I've had the Yo gamma gamma song with that hobbit guy going through my head since last weekend.

So everyone can experience this amazing piece of filmography, here it is. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzwOsIh7FDE&feature=related) You MUST stay until at least 45 seconds into it because...... there are some BRILLIANT dance moves.

[JWBear]

So everyone can experience this amazing piece of filmography, here it is. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzwOsIh7FDE&feature=related) You MUST stay until at least 45 seconds into it because...... there are some BRILLIANT dance moves.

I can't watch it from work, but is it anything like Benny Lava? :evil:

[JWBear]

Great! I have the fvcking theme song for Nanny and the Professor going through my head.




Somebody please shoot me.

[flippyshark]

Great! I have the fvcking theme song for Nanny and the Professor going through my head.




Somebody please shoot me.

OH! That's the worst! (If you haven't heard it, you can watch it (http://www.hulu.com/nanny-and-the-professor) at hulu. The song is syruppy and sappy, like the show. I loved it as a kid, but can't stomach it now.

[flippyshark]

Mannah mannah*








*I blame mouepod for that one.

That one gets lodged easily, and yet, I don't mind. I'm stupidly infatuated with this ridiculous tune, with or without Muppets.

[blueerica]

Come all my friends, as we all sing a happy little working song...

[Betty]

Love Hurts by Incubus - I hadn't realized how many songs by Incubus that I already like. Kewl!

[JWBear]

I have Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau playing over and over in my head; and St David's Day isn't for another two months!

[JWBear]

Damn you Karen Carpenter! Get out of my head!!!

[Kevy Baby]

Close to You?
We've Only Just Begun?
Bless the Beasts and the Children?
Sing?

[JWBear]

Lets just say that I don't give a flying fvck why birds suddenly appear.

[Kevy Baby]

Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?

On the day that you were born
and the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust
in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around

On the day that you were born
and the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust
in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue.

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around

[JWBear]

You are pure evil.

[Kevy Baby]

I gotta be pure at SOMETHING

[JWBear]

I have the song "Spanish Harlem" in my head, and I can't get rid of it!

[Gemini Cricket]

I have the song "Hare Krishna" from "Hair" stuck in my head at the moment...

"Take trips, get high, laugh, joke and goodbye
Beat drum, an old tin pot, I am high on you know what..."

[flippyshark]

I have the song "Hare Krishna" from "Hair" stuck in my head at the moment...

"Take trips, get high, laugh, joke and goodbye
Beat drum, an old tin pot, I am high on you know what..."

Gosh, how could that be.

I saw an interview with the leads of the Broadway Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and they were asked if they liked the title song. It was clear from their gritted teeth and squinting expression that they were VERY unfond of that ditty by the time of opening night.

So, will doing the show make you weary of hearing Hair, or will it stay on your playlist?

[Gemini Cricket]

I don't think I could get tired of "Hair". I think it's because there's like 32 songs in the show.
:)

[Gn2Dlnd]

Oh Chitty, you Chitty, pretty Chitty Bang-Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang we love you, High Chitty, Low Chitty, Everywhere we go Chitty, Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang loves us too.


Miracles from molecules, are dawning every day (Chitty Bang-Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang)

Chitty.

[Morrigoon]

Chicken chicken backpack...

[JWBear]

I passed by someone's office awhile ago. Margaritaville was playing on their radio. Now, it's stuck in my head.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Trolololo lo lololo lololo lololololoooo

yehyehyehyeh yeh yehyehyeh yehyeh yehyehyehyehyeeeeh

[€uroMeinke]

No Future
No Future
No Future...

[Not Afraid]

I've been waking up with the most GODAWFUL songs in my head every morning. The "wonderful" artists range from Journey to Christopher Cross. I think Dreamland needs to change the radio station. I have better musical taste than that!

[Kevy Baby]

I think you are secretly a Jordan Brothers fan

[Not Afraid]

Do you mean Jonas Brothers?

[Kevy Baby]

See - I KNEW it.

[Gemini Cricket]

The earworm of the day?
Smack My Bitch Up ~ Prodigy
:D

[€uroMeinke]

This morning it was Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a Fist

[Deebs]

This song was always a vicious earworm, but I hadn't thought of it in years. Why today?

Player -- Baby Come Back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o)

[3894]

A completely, joyously sexy song that's safe for work, recorded by the hippest cat to ever walk the face of this earth, Mr. Louis Armstrong .... oh, and Ella Fitzgerald, too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mawPFdFm8)

[JWBear]

I've had "Somewhere" from West Side Story in my head all morning.

There is no place for them in my brain. Go away!

[mousepod]

For better or worse, I have a demo tape from an artist whose record I'm releasing later this year. The guy's day job writing kid's cartoon music and jingles. Needless to say, of the seven songs he's given me so far, there are seven earworms. As catchy as the music is, his lyrics are a little... odd... so I've found myself walking through Trader Joe's singing "Lighters up and engines on!" or, "We're all drowning in blood!" Hmmm.

[Snowflake]

The opening notes of Bohemian Rhapsody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI) were paraphrased in a program I was watching and now I can't get the sone out of my head.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"You all everybody.....you all everybody...."

[Gemini Cricket]

"M-m-my telephone. M-m-my telephone!"

[lashbear]

"Oh, we're the boys of the chorus, we hope you like our show,
We know you're rooting for us, but now it's time to go"

[CoasterMatt]

Banana Phone! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wky5H1xC6-I)

[JWBear]

I've had the theme from Petticoat Junction in my head since I got up. Of all the unholy things that could have vomited forth from the depths of hell, why this?

[Gn2Dlnd]

I had to go look up "Freebird" on the youtubes last night, so, "If ah leeeave heah tomooorrooow..." is my morning mental soundtrack.

[CoasterMatt]

I've got a big bag of crabs here! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jFTzhdZF4)

[Kevy Baby]

I've got a big bag of crabs here! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jFTzhdZF4)Try a lotion containing 1% permethrin or a mousse containing pyrethrins and piperonyl butoxide.

[JWBear]

I've had Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious going through my head all morning.

I asked Bill to kill me, but he refused. He doesn't love me anymore. :(

[CoasterMatt]

The Attery Squash - Haven't You Got Enough Disillusionment In Your Life? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro9Og5vM47c)

[Morrigoon]

Super Mario Bros 2 Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrL3Jc0isF0)

(by the way, watch the video... this dude uses all sorts of crazy warps!)

[CoasterMatt]

NARWHALS!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc)
:D

[Morrigoon]

Haha, awesome!

[Gemini Cricket]

I have the guitar part of Jack Johnson's "You and Your Heart" stuck in my brains right now.

[Kevy Baby]

My brain has been replaying track two of Marcel Marceau's Greatest Hits CD lately.







Actually, I wish I could - I could use a little cranial down-time.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Working "Spamalot" this morning, I've had a lot of things in my head. Some of it from Monty Python, some from Camelot, and then random things.

Much better than the "1-800-cars-for-kids" song that was yesterday's mental juke-box.

[JWBear]

"The Tapioca" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2AxwllQOHE) from Thoroughly Modern Millie.